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Federal Fire Society 



of Portsmouth, N. H. 



ORGANIZED MARCH 6, 1789. 



PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, 

1905. 



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Preface. 

The word Federal was much in vogue in the 
early days of the Republic. It had at that time a 
distinctly patriotic significance. The Federal 
Constitution was everywhere discussed. The ar- 
guments for and against the proposed Federal 
Government of the States were ably presented; and 
when in June, 1788, the Convention at Exeter b}^ a 
vote of 57 to 46 made New Hampshire the Ninth 
State to adopt the Federal Constitution, Ports- 
mouth celebrated the momentous event by every 
token of public rejoicing. 

So when in the following March the immortal 
fifteen founders of this ancient and honorable asso- 
ciation adopted as its title the Federal Fire So- 
ciety and for its rallying cry the word Federal 
they selected the strongest designation by which to 
express their patriotism and their good citizenship. 

Many years have elapsed since the Society took 
an active part in service at fires. During the first 
sixty years of its existence it was very much in 
evidence at all conflagrations. But for the past 
fifty years or more, by reason of the more perfect 
appliances for the extinguishing of fires and for the 
preservation of order and salvage of movable prop- 



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eity on such occasions of disaster, its action has no 
longer been necessary, yet it still continues to exist 
and to hold its semi-annual meetings as an associa- 
tion, and should circumstances ever again demand 
its active co-operation it will beyond question be 
found as ready to lend a hand in time of need as it 
was a hundred years ago. So let the Federal 
Fire Society continue. In the words of its an- 
cient motto ''Esto Perpetual Let it be perpetual. 



Articles of Agreement 

WITH FAC SIMILE OF SIGNATURES OF THE 
FOUNDERS. 



Federal Fire Society. 



WE the Siibfcribers, inhabitants of the town of 
Portfmouth, in the State of New-Hampfhire, from 
a confideration of the clanger of FIRE, and the 
rifque of having our property at fuch time deftroyed 
or plundered, — agree to the following RULES to 
be obferved by us as a FIRE-SOCIETY, for pre- 
venting as far as in our power, the evils before 
mentioned, and others attendant on accidental fires. 

ARTICLES agreed upon by the FEDERAL 
FIRE-SOCIETT, Port/mouth, March 6, 1789. 

I ft. WE will meet for the purpofe of tranfa6t- 
ing fuch bufinefs as may be thought beneficial to 
the fociety, the firft Friday evening in the months 
of March, June, September and December, the lift 
to be called at eight o'clock, any member then ab- 
fent to be fined one fifth of a dollar. Meetings for 
extraordinary bufinefs fhall be called by the Clerk 
when any five of the members defire it. 

2d. Our number fhall not exceed twent)^-five 
members, and no bufinefs fhall be tranfa6ted re- 
quiring a general vote, 'till the lift is called, and a 



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majority prefent of the members then belonging to 
the fociety. 

3d. Annually at our March meeting the Offi- 
cers of the Society fhall be chofen, viz. a Chair- 
man, Clerk, and two or more Wardens; the Chair- 
man fhall prefide at the meetings of the fociety, 
and at the conclufion of the ufual bufinefs fhall 
enquire whether any member has any thing to pro- 
pofe for the good of the fociety. The Clerk fhall 
keep their accounts and record their tranfaftions, 
and fhall notify each meeting by tickets fent to the 
members, for which fervices he fhall be exempt 
from the quarterly contributions. The Wardens 
fhall once a quarter at leaft examine each mem- 
ber's buckets, bags, and other fire-implements to 
fee that they are in order, and fhall at the fame 
time by defire of any member vifit his apartments 

to know the avenues thereto. In time of fire the 

Wardens fhall take care of an}^ member's effe6ts 
committed to their charge, and fee fuch articles 
depofited in fafety according to their beft judge- 
ment, and fhall ftay by and keep the fame in cuf- 
tody 'till reliev'd. 

4th. Each member fhall be furnifhed with the 
following implements, viz. two good leather buck- 
ets, painted with perpendicular ftripes of red, 
white and black ; on one fide the following words : 

Federal F. S. 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, 

The firft letter of the owner's chriftian name, and 
the whole of his firname. 

On one bucket N°. i. 1789. 
On the other N°. 2. 1789. 

Thefe buckets to be kept conftantly hanging in 
Ibme convenient place of the owner's apartments, 
with two good bags, with ftrings at their mouths, 
each capable of containing at leaft four bufhels, 
and painted as the buckets except the ftripes. 
Each member to be alfo furnifh'd with a mop 
made of woolen cloths, the length to be at leaft 
fifteen feet, and a turn-fcrew for taking down bed- 
fteads, &c. — Every member who negle6ts to fur- 
nifh himfelf with the implements aforefaid fhall 
pay a fine of half a dollar for every fuch negle6t; 
the fame fine to be paid as often as the wardens at 
their vifits fhall find any of faid implements miff- 
ing or unfit for ufe, of which they fhall without 
favour or affection make report at the next quarter- 
ly meeting of the fociety. 

5th. Any of the aforefaid implements being 
loft at a fire, fhall be replaced by the owner within 
three months, at his own expenfe. 

6th. On notice of a fire every member fhall 
fpeedily repair to it with his buckets and bags; if 
any place in the occupation of a inember be in 
danger, they fhall ufe their beft endeavours at the 
direction of the owner, if prefent, or otherwife ac- 



FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 

cording to the beft of their judgment to remove 
and fecure his effects. 

7th. No perfon fhall be admitted as a member 
of this Ibciety but by the unanimous vote of the 
members prefent at a quarterly meeting; and no 
fuch vote fhall be put without fuch perfon having 
been previoufly nominated at the quarterly meet- 
ing immediately preceding that in which he is voted 
for. 

8th. Each member whether prefent or abfent, 
fhall pay to the Clerk by himfelf or fome one for 
him, his proportion of the quarterly and other ex- 
penfes of the fociety, on penalty of being difmifs'd 
therefrom by vote. 

9th. The fociety's watchword for colle6ting the 
members at a fire fhall be FEDERAL; they fhall 
alfo have a counterfign, to be altered at their pleaf- 
ure; any member not being able to anfwer it when 
demanded by the Clerk, fhall pay one tenth of a 
dollar, any one who fhall divulge the fame, or any 
of the private tranfa6lions of the fociety to a per- 
fon not a member fhall pay one dollar. 

loth. Nothing but ficknefs or being out of 
town, except a vote of the fociety, fhall excufe a 
member from paying fines incurred. Any mem- 
ber who fhall refufe to pa}^ his fines when demand- 
ed by the Clerk, or who fhall unneceffarily abfent 
himfelf from three fucceffive meetings of the fo- 
ciety, fhall no longer be confidered as a member, 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 

nor be again admitted without the ulual ceremonies 
of election. 

nth. The fociety at the delire of any member 
fhall vifit his apartments to learn the avenues there- 
to, and to know where his moft valuable papers, 
&c. are depofited. 

1 2th. Each member fhall have the obfervations 
of the fociety refpe6ting fires pafted up in fome 
confpicuous place in his houfe. Every member 
muft alfo be provided with a copy of thefe articles 
with the member's names, and times of admittance, 
which muft be produced to the Clerk at every 
quarterly meeting, on penalty of one tenth of a dol- 
lar for every omiffion. 

13th. All difputes to be decided by the major 
votes of the members prelent. 

IN Testimony of a ftri6l obfervance of the 
foregoing articles, we hereunto fubfcribe our 
names. 



FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 



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Biographical Notes 

OF MEMBERS OF THE 

FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. 

ORGANIZED MARCH 6, 1789. 



Compiled in f>itr$iiauce of a vote of the Society passed at 
its A}t7iual Meeting March 6, xgo2. 



The Society was organized March 6, 1789, and 
the following were the original members: 

John Pickering, 
Daniel Rindge, 
Ammi R. Cutter, 
Jacob Sheafe, Jr., 
Thomas Sheafe, 
James Sheafe, 
Joseph Haven, 
Nathaniel A. Haven, 
Benjamin Dearborn, 
William Sheafe, 
Samuel Haven, Jr., 
Thomas Martin, 
Oliver Whipple, 
Hall Jackson, 
John Jackson. 



FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 



JOHN PICKERING. 

He was Judge of the United States District Court for New 
Hampshire. Graduated at Harvard College in 1761. Lived 
on Market Street at North corner of what is now Commer- 
cial Alley. His house was burned in the great fire of Decem- 
ber 26, 1S02, which broke out in the New Hampshire Bank 
building, destroyed every building on the Parade except the 
Court House and the old North Meeting House, all on Daniel 
Street as far as Penhallow, all Market Street as far as the 
Ladd house. Bow Street as far as Church Hill, Hanover 
Street from Market Street to the top of the hill, and every 
building but one on Ladd Street. The loss of property was 
estimated at $200,000. 

Judge Pickering was a man of great legal knowledge and 
eminent ability. He was a delegate from Portsmouth to the 
Convention for forming the State Constitution which was 
adopted in 1783. He was also a delegate to the Convention 
of this State which adopted the Constitution of the United 
States in 1788. It is said that his eloquence and power of 
reasoning had great effect in procuring its adoption. 

He died April 13, 1805, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. 



DANIEL RINDGE. 

He was a Merchant. He lived at the corner of Market and 
Daniel Streets. His house was also burned in the great fire 
of 1802. In 1766 he was appointed Councillor in his Maj- 

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esty's Province of New Hampshire, but in 1775 declined fur- 
ther allegiance to the British Government. He died January 
12, 1799, aged sixty -eight years. 



AMMI RUHAMAH CUTTER. 

Born at North Yarmouth, Maine, in 1735. Graduated at 
Harvard College in 1752 at the early age of seventeen years. 
Lived at South-East corner of Congress and Fleet Streets. Soon 
after completing his studies he was appointed Surgeon of a 
regiment raised in this province to oppose the French and 
Indians, who were threatening the settlements. He contin- 
ued with the regiment after it was ordered to Cape Breton, 
and was at the second capture of Louisburg in 175S. He 
then established an extensive practice in Portsmouth, but in 
1777 accepted the charge of the medical department of the 
Northern Continental army, and remained in charge until the 
surrender of Burgoyne, when he resumed practice here. For 
nearly sixty years his labors in his profession were incessant, 
and the confidence placed in him by this community was un- 
bounded. 

He was for several years President of the New Hampshire 
Medical Society. He was elected an Honorary member of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Massachusetts 
Humane Society. He died December 8, 1820, in his eighty- 
sixth year. 



JA COB SHEAFE, JR. 

He was a Merchant. His house was situated on Buck (now 
State) Street, facing Washington Street. It was burned in 
the great fire of December, 18 13, which consumed one hun- 
dred and eighty dwellings and sixty -four other buildings. He 
afterward lived at the corner of Market and Daniel Streets. 

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lie was eminent for his Iiospitality and genial disposition. He 
(lied in 1839 at the age of eighty-four years. 



THOMAS SHEAFE. 

He was a Merchant. In those times the mercliants of Ports- 
mouth sent their Portsmouth built ships to the West Indies, 
the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and more distant ports, gener- 
nlly with cargoes furnished by themselves and their imme- 
diate friends, and many a small "adventure" was sent out by 
others in charge of the supercargo, whose duty was to dispose 
of the goods in some foreign port and purchase return cargo 
for the various parties interested. This trading beyond the 
seas often brought handsome returns and enabled such mer- 
chants to live elegantly and to leave large fortunes to their 
children. 

Mr. Sheafe lived at South-West corner of Market and Deer 
Streets. He died September 4, 1831, aged eighty years. 



JAMES SHEAFE. 

He was a Merchant. Graduated at Harvard College in 
1774. His house was on Buck Street occupying the site of 
the present Rockingham County Court House. It was de- 
stroyed in the great fire of 1S13. A year or two later he 
built a large and fine house on the same site, where he lived 
for many years, his death occurring December 5, 1829, at the 
age of seventy -four years. 

In 1 80 1 Mr. Sheafe was chosen United States Senator from 
New Hampshire for the term of six years but resigned his 
seat the following year. In Brewster's "Rambles about 
Portsmouth" he is spoken of as "our Duke of Wellington, 
in sagacity and in manners." 

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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETT. 

JOSEPH HA VEN. 

Merchant. He lived on Pleasant Street in the three-storied 
house corner of Richmond Street, which he built in 1790. 
He died July 14, 1829, aged seventy-two years. 

NATHANIEL A. HAVEN. 

He was bred a Physician. Graduated at Harvard College 
in 1779. Was Surgeon onboard an armed vessel in the latter 
part of the Revolutionary War. Was captured by the British 
and confined on board the prison ship "Jersey" at New Yorl:, 
but soon exchanged at the special request of General Washing- 
ton. At the close of the war he became a Merchant. He- 
was the first President of the Portsmouth Savings Bank. 
He was also Clerk of this Society. In 1809 he was elected 
to Congress. His house, which he built in 1798, stands on 
High Street opposite Ladd Street. Pie died March 13, 1831, 
aged sixty-nine years. 

BENJAMIN DEARBORN. 

Schoolmaster. He taught the first school for girls in Ports- 
mouth — at first in a large room in his own dwelling house 
which stood on Market Street, corner of Commercial Alley. 
He afterward built an Academy at the rear of his house, on 
completion of which Dr. Haven delivered an elegant address 
in the North Church in honor of the event, and Mr. Sewall 
wrote an ode. The scholars were all present. The next day 
they were introduced into the new Academy. He soon had 
assistant teachers and over a hundred pupils. Here he pro- 
jected and first introduced "Dearborn's Patent Balances" 
which attained a very high reputation. He was a deep stu- 
dent of mathematics and the mechanical powers. Before the 
Power Printing Press was known he devised plans for such a 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

machine which though not completed did him great credit. 
He moved to Boston where he died in 1838, at the age of 
eighty-three years. 



WILLIAM SHEAFE, 

Merchant. Lived in house on Congress Street between 
Chestnut and Middle Streets, which he built in 1797. He 
died in March, 1839, in his eighty-first year. "One of the 
most worthy and venerable of our fellow citizens," said the 
Portsmouth Journal of that date. 



SAMUEL HAVEN, JR. 

Clergyman. In South Parish records he is recorded as son 
of Samuel and Mehitable Haven, baptized August 11, 1754. 
He died at Northwood, N. H., in 1825. 



THOMAS MARTIN. 

Naval Officer at the Custom House. His house was on 
Deer Street, now part of the Boston & Maine Railroad Res- 
taurant. Died February 4, 1S05, aged seventy-three years. 
The "Oracle" of February 9 calls him "this excellent man," 
and adds "few men while living were more universally es- 
teemed and respected." 



OLIVER WHIPPLE. 

He was a Lawyer. Graduated at Harvard College in 1766. 
Colonel Whipple built the house in which he lived (North- 
West corner of Court and Pleasant Streets) at about the time 
and in the same style as the Pickering house which stands 
next the Universalist Church. During the Revolutionary 



FEDERAL FIRE SOCIET2'. 

War he removed to Maine, but afterward returned to Ports- 
mouth. The house was burned m the great fire of 1813. 
He died in that year, aged sixty -six years. 

HALL JACKSON. 

Born in Hampton, N. H., November 11, 1739. Educated 
in tlie public schools of Portsmouth, his father. Dr. Clement 
Jackson, having moved to this town in 1749. Studied the 
theory of Physic and Surgery under his father. Went to 
London where he attended lectures in the hospitals to perfect 
himself in surgery. No operation of importance was per- 
formed for many miles around Portsmouth without consulting 
him. In July, 1775, he served with the Continental Army 
at Cambridge in the siege of Boston. In November, 1775, 
the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire voted thanks to 
him and commissioned him as Chief Surgeon of the New 
Hampshire troops in the Continental Army. In September, 
1776, he was Surgeon of Colonel Pierse Long's regiment. 

In 1783 Harvard College conferred on him the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. He was elected an Honorary Member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society. At the time of his 
death he was Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most 
Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- 
sons of the State of New Hampshire. 

He died September 28, 1797, in the fifty-eighth year of his 
age. His sulky was overturned on Middle Street, by which 
accident several ribs were broken, and a fever set in which 
terminated his honorable and useful life. 

JOHN J A CKSON. 

Apothecary and Surgeon. Born in Portsmouth September 
3, 1745. Son of Deacon Daniel Jackson. He went as Sur- 
geon on board the Continental Ship of War "Raleigh," thir- 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

tv-t\vo guns, Captain Thomas Thompson, which sailed from 
Portsmouth, August 12, 1777, with a crew of 160 men, 
bound for France. She fell in, September 3, with a fleet of 
British merchant ships under convoy, and immediately en- 
gaged the British Brig "Druid," twenty guns, inflicting upon 
her a loss of six men killed and twenty-six wounded, compel- 
ling her to return to port. The "Raleigh" lost three killed 
and wounded. She took no prizes — the convoy probably es- 
caping during the action — but proceeded to L'Orient where 
she was to take on board arms and ammunition for America. 
Doctor Jackson died November 22, 1808. The "Ports- 
mouth Oracle" of November 26, says : "Doctor Jackson 
was a gentleman generally respected and much lamented." 



By these fifteen public-spirited citizens the Fed- 
eral Fire Society was launched upon its long 
career of usefulness. Among them we find one 
classed as Judge of United States Circuit Court for 
New Hampshire, one as Lawyer, two as Physicians, 
one as Apothecary and Surgeon, one as Clergyman, 
one as Schoolmaster, seven as Merchants, and one 
as Naval Officer at the Custom House. Several of 
them were men of great eminence in their calling, 
and there is no reason to doubt that all were of high 
standing in the community and devoted to its best 
interests. 

At the meeting at which the Society was organ- 
ized three additional members were admitted. 



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JOHN HALE. 

Admitted 178 g. 

He was a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1779. Third 
son of Major Samuel Hale, who for nearly forty years was 
Master of the Latin Grammar School in Portsmouth. Major 
Hale — H. C. 1740 — went as Captain in the New Hampshire 
Regiment to the siege of Louisburg in 1 745 and returned as 
Major. He died in 1807 in his eighty-ninth year. John 
Hale, the subject of this sketch, served as Tutor at Harvard, 
1781 to 1786, then studied Law under Judge Pickering and 
was admitted to the bar in 1787. He took high rank as a 
Lawyer. He died July 13, 1796, in his thirty-fourth year. 
"A noble harvest gave yet promised more," was written by 
Jonathan M. Sewall in the epitaph composed by him after 
Mr. Hale's death. 



PETER COUES. 

Admitted ijSf). 

Born in Portsmouth July 30, 1 736. Previous to the great 
fire of 181 3, in which his house was consumed, he resided on 
the South-West corner of State and Atkinson Streets, where 
was also his store. In early life Captain Coues served in the 
British Navy. He was at one time sailing master of the 
"Royal George," which in 1782 capsized and sank with 800 
men on board in the harbor of Portsmouth, England, while 
heeled over for repairs. Before the Revolution he returned 
to this town where he lived for many years, until his death in 
1 818, November 19, in his eighty -third year. 

The local paper, in giving notice of his decease, thus re- 
marked — "by that urbanity of mind and simplicity of man- 
ners for which seafaring men of liberal views are generally 
distinguished Captain Coues obtained a good standing among 
his fellow citizens." 



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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

STEPHEN HARDY, 

Admitted ijSg. 

He was a Merchant Tailor. His house stood on the North- 
West corner of Hanover and High Streets, with an old-fash- 
ioned English garden behind it. He was a member of an 
English family who settled in Portsmouth before the Revolu- 
tion. Mr. Hardy is remembered by the writer of this note as 
a man of quiet habits and exemplary life. He died in Dover 
July 17, 1843, aged eighty-two years. 

STEPHEN CHASE. 
Admitted ijSg. 

Merchant. H. C. 1754. He was one of the founders of 
the "Portsmouth Library" destroyed in the great fire of 18 13. 
He drew up its Constitution and By-Laws. His house stands 
at the corner of Washington and Court Streets. It is now the 
"Chase Home for Children," having been given to that Insti- 
tution by his grandson, George B. Chase, of Boston. He died 
in 1805, aged seventy years. 

JOHN HA VEN. 

Admitted JjSg. 

Began his career as Shipmaster. Afterward for many 
years of the firm of N. A. & J. Haven, Merchants. In 1799 
he built the three-storied house on Islington Street, on the site 
of which stands now the new High School building. He 
died there in 1845, aged eighty years. 

SAMUEL BRIARD. 

Admitted ij8g. 

He was a Shipmaster. His residence was on Deer Street. 
He died April 21, 1806, at the age of forty -four years. 

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SAMUEL RICE. 

Admitted 178*). 

Shipmaster. A native of Kittery. His house stands next 
the "Home for Aged Women" on Deer Street. In 1781 he 
commanded the Privateer "Fancy," eight guns, and tw^enty- 
five men, and in 1782 Privateer "Retaliation," ten guns, 
twenty -five men. Captain Rice died in 1802, aged fifty years. 

REUBEN SHAPLEY. 

Admitted ijgo. 

Merchant. His residence v^^as on Pitt (now Court) Street 
between Atkinson and Water Streets. He was a prominent 
citizen. He died January 10, 1825. 

Upon a marble tablet erected in St. John's Church is this 
tribute to his memory : "Whatever virtues could command 
respect and insure attachment were united in the character of 
this estimable man. Kind, liberal and humane, his good 
deeds have erected a monument to his name more lasting than 
marble, and now that he rests from his labors his works do 
follow him." 

A silver chalice presented by Mr. Shapley is still in posses- 
sion of the Parish. 

ICHABOD NICHOLS. 

Admitted ijgo. 

He was a Shipmaster and lived on Mechanic Street. He 
removed from Portsmouth to Salem, where he died in 1839. 

EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE. 

Admitted lygi. 

Born in Portsmouth in 1762. Lawyer. He was a son of 
the famous Judge, Samuel Livermore, who was King's Attor- 

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ney for the Province of New Hampshire until the Revolution, 
and afterward Delegate, Representative, and Senator in Con- 
gress, and Chief Justice of the State. Edward St. Loe re- 
ceived his education and practised law here. He lived at one 
time corner of Market and Daniel Streets. He removed to 
Lowell, where he died in 1832, aged seventy years. 



RICHARD HART. 

Admitted ijgz. 

Merchant. Lived on Russell Street. His garden extends 
through to Deer Street, opposite High Street. The house 
was built by his father-in-law, Capt. John CoUings, in 1737. 
It is worthy of note that Mr. Hart's grandson. Commodore 
John Collings Long, was a midshipman on board the U. S. 
Frigate "Constitution" when she captured the British Frigate 
"Java," December 29, 1S12. Mr. Hart died February 20, 
1820, aged eighty -seven years. On his tombstone in the 
North Cemetery is inscribed this tribute : "His religion was 
without ostentation and his charity unlimited." 

DANIEL HUMPHRIES. 

Admitted lygz. 

Attorney at Law. Lived on Daniel Street, corner of Mul- 
berry. His house was burned in the great fire of 1813. In 
181 2 at the October term of the United States Circuit Court 
Judge Story ordered as follows : 

The Court on mature deliberation do order that the degree of Bar- 
rister at Law be and hereby is conferred on the following gentlemen 
who are counsellors of this Court, viz : 

Oliver Peabody, 
Daniel Humphreys, 
George Sullivan, 
and Daniel Webster. 
In testimony of the entire respect the Court entertain for their learn- 

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ing, integrity and ability. And the Court further order that this order 
be entered among the records of the Court. 

Barrister Humphries died in 1827. 

DANIEL R. ROGERS. 

Admitted ijgs. 

Cashier of New Hampshire Bank. His house was on Con- 
gress Street, being the third West of the North Church. He 
died in 1S25. 

JOHN WARDROBE. 

Admitted ijgs- 

Shipmaster. He lived corner of Court and Pleasant Streets. 
Capt. Wardrobe was a native of Scotland. He died October 
29, 1804, aged forty-two years. 



CHARLES CHAUNCr. 

Admitted lygs- 

Graduate of Harvard College, class of 1748. His great 
grandfather of same name was the second President of Har- 
vard. He lived on South Street, a few rods West of the 
Haven Schoolhouse. The house was taken down in 1835. 
Mr. Chauncy was a small, very erect old gentleman of quick 
movement ; he wore a cocked hat and dressed in small clothes 
with black silk hose and diamond knee buckles. He wrote 
with great vigor and conciseness and often with eloquence. 
He was a very charitable man. He died in 1809 at about 
eighty years of age. 

GILBERT HORNET. 

Admitted I7g4. 
Shipmaster. Lived on Buck (now State) Street, near 

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Chapel Street. Died in 1S02, aged fifty-two years, as appears 
on his tombstone in St. John's Churchyard. 



EDWARD SARGENT. 

Admitted 17 g4. 

Shipmaster, and later in life Justice of the Peace. He died 
in I Sao. 

JOHN PEIRCE. 

Admitted 17 g^. 

Born in Portsmouth in 1746. Educated at the Latin Gram- 
mar School under Major Hale. Began his business career in 
the counting room of Daniel Rindge. At the age of twenty- 
one he took charge of the business and extensive property of 
his uncle, Mark Hunking Wentworth, father of John Went- 
worth, the last Royal Governor of New Hampshire. Was 
made Executor of his uncle's will. He also had charge of 
property belonging to persons residing in England, and was 
Manager of the affairs of Mason's Patent, of which he was 
one of the proprietors. 

In 1 79 1 he was elected Representative to the General Court 
and was repeatedly re-elected. In the same year he took 
charge of an Insurance office in addition to his other business. 

In 1794 he was the principal agent in erecting the bridge 
over the Piscataqua river at Fox Point. 

In 1 79S he was appointed by President John Adams United 
States Loan Officer for New Hampshire. 

For many years he lived on the Parade. His house stood 
on the East corner of High Street. In 1800 he built the fine 
three-storied dwelling house which faces Haymarket Square 
and is now No. i Court Street. He died June 14, 1814, aged 
sixty-eight years. 

Mr. Peirce was a man universally respected as always open, 

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honorable and correct in his conduct, and of a very benevo- 
lent disposition. 

From March, 1794, to February, 1797, there were 
no new members added to the Society. In the 
latter year three new men were admitted — 
Edward Parry, John Fisher, and John Flagg. 

EDWARD PARRY. 

Admitted lygy. 

He was a Merchant. Was bom in Wales. While residing 
in Portsmouth he lived in the house which formerly stood on 
Pleasant Street, corner of Edward. When Haven Park was 
opened the house was moved to a location on Parrott Avenue, 
and altered into two tenements. Mr. Parry finally removed 
to New York, where he died in 1832. 

JOHN FISHER. 

Admitted ijgy. 

His house stood where the Rockingham National Bank now 
is, the garden covering the site of the present City Hall on one 
side and extending nearly to State Street on the other. It 
was destroyed in the great fire of 181 3. 

Mr. Fisher removed to England. He became private Sec- 
retary to Lord Grenville when tliat nobleman was Secretary 
of State. His death took place at Kensington, near London, 
in 1 83 8 — he being at the time seventy -four years of age. 

JOHN FLAGG. 

Admitted ijijlj. 
Shipmaster. His house is still standing on Vaughan Street, 

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being the last house before you come to the railroad crossing, 
and on the side toward the railroad station. Capt. Flagg died 
in 1817. He was Master of the Ship "Mentor" belonging to 
Thomas Sheafe ; July 22, 1798, she arrived under his com- 
mand from Martinique, where the yellow fever was prevalent, 
but all on board were well. In discharging the cargo, how- 
ever, two men employed were taken down with the disease, 
which spread through the town until terminated on the 5th of 
October by frost. There were in all ninety-six cases, of which 
fifty-five proved fatal — among the latter were three of the 
children of Mr. Sheafe, the owner of the ship — Sally, aged 
seventeen, Thomas fourteen, and Horatio six. 

Such a pestilence had never before nor has since visited our 
town, which ranks among the healthiest in the Union. — 
{Brewster' s Rambles^ 2d series^ pp. igj to 196.) 



RICHARD SALTER. 

Admitted JjgS. 

Merchant. Lived on South-West corner of Vaughan and 
Deer Streets. A memorial of the Salter family by William 
Salter says of him that in the war of the Revolution he com- 
manded the Privateer "Scorpion" of eight guns. In memoirs 
of Andrew Sherburne of Portsmouth, published at Utica in 
1828, occurs the following : *' Letter of Marque Brig 'Scorpion,' 
Capt. Richard Salter, eight guns, fitted out at Portsmouth 
for the West Indies, was captured by H. M. S. 'Amphion' 
on return voyage from Guadeloupe and Montserrat to Alex- 
andria, Virginia, within two days' sail of port. Crew sent to 
'Jersey' prison ship, New York. Our Captain, Mr. Tibbets 
the Mate, and three others, continued on board the 'Scorpion,' 
which was afterward cast away, but I believe no lives were 
lost." 

Capt. Salter died May 2, 181 2, in his sixty-eighth year. 

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WILLIAM NEIL. 

Admitted lygS. 

Merchant. Came to Portsmouth from Belfast, Ireland, in 
the year 1793. Lived on Buck Street. He died in 1S25, 
aged seventy -nine years. 

JOHN H. SEAWARD. 

Admitted lygg. 
Shipmaster. Lived in w^hat was know^n as the Boyd house 
— corner of Raynes Avenue and Maplewood Avenue. He 
wore a queue and powdered hair — one of the last, if not the 
very last, in Portsmouth, to use that fashion. He died in 
1845. 

JACOB CUTTER. 

Admitted J'jgg. 

Merchant. His residence in the latter years of his life was 
in the three-storied Colonial house corner of Congress and 
Middle Streets. He died in 1857 ^* ^^^ ^S^ ^^ eighty-six 
years. 

WILLIAM BO TD. 

Admitted ijgg. 

Ship Owner. He was a son of Col. George Boyd, who in 
1770 was rated as the richest man in Portsmouth, his tax in 
that year being £67, while the next highest tax — that of Mark 
Hunking Wentworth — was £30. The entire tax list amounted 
to £1659. 

The subject of this sketch in 1790 lived in a very spacious 
mansion which stood at the corner of Market and Bow Streets, 
The house faced to the North and in front was an open fence 
enclosing a small garden plot. — {^Brewster' s Rambles^ series 
/, page 161.) 

From 1807 to 1809 Mr. Boyd served the town as Chief 

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Fire ward, and again in 1811. Later he removed to New 
Orleans and died in 1826 at the age of fifty-five years. 

JEREMIAH MASON. 

Admitted 1801. 

Lawyer. Son of CoL Jeremiah Mason of the Revokitionary 
army who commanded a Company of minute men at the siege 
of Boston. Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, April 27, 1768. 
Graduated at Yale College in 1788. Studied law. Admitted 
to the bar in 1791. Practised his profession in New Hamp- 
shire, finally establishing himself at Portsmouth. In 1802 he 
was made Attorney General of the State, and later, when Daniel 
Webster was engaged in practice in the Courts in Portsmouth, 
Mason obtained wide reputation through the ability shown in 
his legal contests with that giant of the bar. From 18 13 to 
1817 he served as United States Senator from New Hamp- 
shire, taking an active part in debates. After retiring from 
the Senate he was several times elected to the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature. He was President of the United States 
branch bank in Portsmouth. 

In 1808 he built the three-storied house on "Mason's Hill," 
corner of State and Summer Streets, where he resided till his 
removal to Boston in 1832. He continued the practice of law 
in the Courts of Massachusetts until his seventieth year. He 
died October 14, 1848, aged eighty years. 

Yale bestowed upon him in 1 796 the degree of Master of 
Arts, and he received that of Doctor of Laws from Bowdoin 
in 1815, from Harvard in 181 7, and from Dartmouth in 1823. 

GEORGE F. BLUNT. 

Admitted 1801. 

Shipmaster. His grandfather. Rev. John Blunt, (H. C 
1727) was settled over the church at New Castle in 1732 

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where he remained until his death in 1748. His father was 
the Capt. John Blunt, of Blunt's island, Little Harbor, who 
from his long experience in navigating the Delaware river 
was requested by General Washington to take the helm of the 
boat in which he embarked on that memorable night of De- 
cember 25, 1776, when amid the floating ice cakes of the 
Delaware he crossed that broad river and fell upon the sur- 
prised Hessians at Trenton. 

Capt. George F. Blunt resided on Vaughan Street. He 
died in 1831, aged seventy years. 

SAMUEL HAM. 

Admitted 1801. 

Ship Owner. He built the Woodbury mansion on part of 
what was then known as the Boyd farm. He died in 18 13. 

WILLIAM TREAD WELL. 

Admitted 1801. 

Printer. He published the "Portsmouth Oracle," a semi- 
weekly paper founded in 1793 by Charles Peirce and then 
called "The Oracle of the Day." About 182 1 it became the 
"Portsmouth Journal — of Literature and Politics," under 
which title it continued for over eighty years. Mr. Tread- 
well died in 1820. 

WILLIAM CUTTER. 

Admitted 1801. 

Physician. Son of Dr. Ammi R. Cutter, one of the found- 
ers of this Society. He studied medicine under his father and 
served as assistant to Dr. Hall Jackson. During the yellow 
fever epidemic which prevailed in Portsmouth during the 
summer of 1 798 he was very active in his profession and was 

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himself attacked by the disorder, from which however he re- 
covered. His practice became very extensive and his advice 
was sought in all critical cases. He was benevolent in dispo- 
sition, pleasant in manner, and very social. He died May 22, 
1 8 17, in his forty-eighth year. 

SAMUEL JONES. 

Admitted 1802. 
Merchant. He resided at Christian Shore. Died in 1821. 

ROBERT RICE. 

Admitted 1802. 

Merchant. Born in Kittery. The Rice Library in that 
town was the gift of his daughter, Arabella. Mr. Rice lived 
in the large brick house on Islington Street, corner of Parker 
Street. He died in 1S53 at the age of seventy -three years. 

DANIEL WALDRON. 

Admitted 1802. 

Merchant. Died in Dover in 1821, having removed to that 
town from Portsmouth several years before. 

THEODORE FURBER. 

Admitted 1802. 

Grocer. Lived on Congress Street, opposite East corner 
of Middle Street. He died in 1809. 

EBENEZER THOMPSON. 

Admitted 1804. 

Son of Judge Ebenezer Thompson, a leading citizen of 
Durham, N. H. The subject of this sketch was born in Dur- 

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ham, July 12, 1762. In 1793 he represented the town in the 
Legislature and was six times re-elected, always by very large 
majorities. He engaged successfully in shipbuilding and for- 
eign trade. In 1800 he was the largest taxpayer in Durham. 
He was a man of brilliant parts and used to conduct his own 
cases in the courts. He took an interest in military affairs, 
and being commissioned in 1799 Lieutenant Colonel of the 
25th New Hampshire Regiment he was ever after called 
Colonel Thompson. 

In 1803 ^^ removed to Portsmouth where he acquired real 
estate. His loss in the great fire of 18 13 was about $40,000. 
He resided on Middle Street, and died February 4, 1828, 
in liis sixty-sixth year. 

JACOB S. PICKERING. 

Admitted j8oj. 
Cashier of the Rockingham Bank. He lived on Vaughan 
Street in the house which stood half way between Congress 
and Hanover Streets, on West side of Vaughan. He was a 
son of Judge John Pickering, one of the founders of this 
Society, and was himself Clerk of the Society for several 
years and at the time of his death was its oldest member. He 
died in 1849 at the age of sixty -nine years. 

CHARLES COFFIN. 

Admitted 180^. 

Shipmaster. Lived on Jaffrey Street, now Court Street. 
Died in 1842. 



STEPHEN PEARSE. 

Admitted 180^. 
Grocer. For sixty years he occupied the same store in 

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

which he commenced business. It was on the Parade next 
the South corner of Daniel Street. His house was on Isling- 
ton Street, nearly opposite Pearl Street. He was a man of 
courtly manner and sterling character, and had the respect of 
the community. He died March 26, 1861, in his eighty- 
second year. 



PEYTON R. FREEMAN. 

Admitted 1806. 

Lawyer. Came from Hanover, N. H. He was Clerk of 
this Society. A man of very retiring disposition. Returned 
to Hanover in his old age and died there April 3, 1868, aged 
ninety-two years. 

SAMUEL PEARSE, 

Admitted 1806. 

Shipmaster. He resided on Daniel Street. Died in 1816, 
aged fifty-six years. 

GILMAN LEA VITT. 

Admitted 1807. 

He came from Northwood and was engaged in the West 
India business. He lived on Congress Street, between Chest- 
nut and Middle Streets. His death occurred in 1842. 

REUBEN S. RANDALL. 

Admitted 1807. 

Shipmaster. He died May 6, 1825, on board hk brig, the 
"Martha and Jane," of Portsmouth, while on the passage 
from St. Jago de Cuba to Havana, and was buried at sea. 

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THOMAS BROWN. 

Admitted i8og. 

Shipmaster and Owner. He lived in the Wentworth house 
on Hanover Street, and afterward in Kittery. He possessed 
at one time an ample fortune but died poor. In his prosper- 
ous days he was noted for his great liberality and benevolence. 
He was one of the two largest contributors to the rebuilding 
of St. John's Church after its destruction by fire in 1806 — the 
other being Hon. James Sheaf e, one of the founders of this 
Society. Capt. Brown died October 15, 1822, aged sixty 
years. 

NATHANIEL BROWN. 

Admitted i8og. 

Innkeeper. He came from Wolfboro, where for several 
years he superintended the Gov. Wentworth farm. For many 
years he kept the Bell tavern on Congress Street. He died 
in 1844 at the age of seventy-six years. 



L£ WIS BARNES. 

Admitted j8jo. 

Shipmaster and Owner. Born at Gottenburg, Sweden, 
October 28, 1776. He was of the family of Baarnhielm — 
ennobled in the sixteenth century for distinguished military 
and naval service. When a boy he accompanied his uncle, 
Karl Lorenz Baarnhielm, who commanded a flotilla of Swed- 
ish gunboats during a war then existing between Russia and 
Sweden. Conceiving himself ill-treated by his uncle, he 
jumped overboard and swam to an American ship lying in 
the same harbor, which received him on board and sailed 
with him to Salem, Mass. The Captain having taken a very 
friendly interest in him introduced him to the house of Rev. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

Dr. Bentley. The young sailor entered as Jacobi Ludwig 
Baarnhielm, and came out as plain Lewis Barnes, the Doctor 
telling him that Americans would never be able to pronounce 
his Swedish name. He chose the sea for a profession, and 
in the year 1800 became master of a Portsmouth ship. Here 
in 1803 he married and established his home, never seeking 
to resume connection with his family in Sweden and never 
making mention of them. Years after his death, however, by 
advice of a friend, his daughter wrote to her father's cousin. 
Col. Ludwig Baarnhielm, of Stockholm, from whom came a 
reply, beginning, "A happy New Year to you, my dear 
cousin," which was the beginning of a correspondence and of 
an exchange of photographs and presents of the deepest and 
most cordial interest to both the Swedish and the American 
branches of the Baarnhielm-Barnes family. 

Capt. Barnes died at his residence on Islington Street June 
27, 1856, in his eightieth year. 



CHARLES PEIRCE, 

Admitted 18 10. 

Bookseller. He kept a large bookstore on Daniel Street, 
which was destroyed in the great fire of 1802. He published 
in June, 1793, the first number of the "Oracle of the Day," a 
semi-weekly newspaper. The building in which it was 
printed stood on Pleasant Street, next the North Church. It 
was subsequently removed to its present location on Court 
Street, corner of Haymarket Square, where it was known as 
the "Oracle House." The name of the paper was changed 
in 1802 to the "United States Oracle and Portsmouth Adver- 
tiser," reduced in 1803 to the simpler title of "The Ports- 
mouth Oracle." 

Mr. Peirce removed to Philadelphia, where he died in 185 1, 
aged eighty -one years. 

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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 
RICHARD SHAPLEIGH. 

Admitted 1811. 

Shipmaster. Born in Eliot, Me., February 25, 1776. He 
commanded the ship "Granville," which was wrecked on 
Locke's ledge, off Rye Beach, early on the morning of April 
14, 1 8 13. The "Granville" was bound from Cadiz for Ports- 
mouth with a cargo of salt, 800 boxes of raisins and a quan- 
tity of lemons. Thirteen of the crew were rescued by boats 
from shore, but Capt. Shapleigh while attempting to cut away 
the mizzen mast was swept overboard and drowned. There 
was a strong Southerly wind blowing and a heavy sea run- 
ning and the ship went to pieces, the entire cargo being lost 
and nothing saved from the wreck except a part of the rig- 
ging- 

The New Hampshire Gazette of April 20, in its account 
of the disaster, says of the Captain : "He was enterprising 
and industrious from his youth, an honest and useful member 
of society, and he has left behind him an irreproachable char- 
acter." 

He was thirty-seven years of age. 



OLIVER C. BLUNT. 

Admitted 181 1. 

Shipmaster. Brother of Capt, Geo. F. Blunt (F. F. S. 
1801). Born 1774. It is related in "Rambles About Forts- 
mouth" that his parents had decided to name him William^ 
and he was taken to the Church at New Castle from the home 
on Blunt's island, which his father, Capt. John Blunt, owned, 
to be so christened. Rev. Joseph Stevens of Kittery, who 
that day officiated, was a Royalist, and gave a sermon in 
which Cromwell as a Revolutionist was denounced in no meas- 
ured terms. This incensed Capt. Blunt, and when at the 
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child was to have, he roared out, in a voice that filled the 
Church, OLIVER CROMWELL ! and Oliver Cromwell he 
was named. He and his four brothers followed the sea, as 
their father had done before them, and all became successful 
shipmasters. He built the house in which he resided on 
State Street, and died in 1844 at the age of seventy years. 

WILLIAM LADD, 

Admitted 18 12. 

Born at Exeter, N. H., in 1778. Graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege, 1797. In early manhood a Shipmaster. He afterward 
became widely known as President of the American Peace 
Society in which he was for many years of his life the most 
active member. He edited the "Friend of Peace," also the 
"Harbinger of Peace" — publications of that Society. In 
182^ he published an address to the Peace Society of Maine, 
and in 1S25 an address to the Peace Society of Massachusetts. 
His "dissertation on a Congress of Nations" was published in 
1832. The American Biographical Dictionary in its account 
of him says "he was a man honest, earnest, benevolent and 
pious." He died in Portsmouth April 9, 1841, aged sixty- 
three years, 

THOMAS NEIL. 

Admitted 18 13. 

Son of William Neil, hereinbefore mentioned. He was a 
Merchant engaged in foreign trade. Born in Belfast, Ireland. 
Came to Portsmouth in 1790. Died here in 1850, aged sev- 
enty-seven years. 

EDWARD CUTTS, 

Admitted 1813. 
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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETT. 

native place was Eliot, Maine. He resided on State Street, 
corner of Chestnut. He died in 1844. 

SAMUEL LARKIN. 

Admitted 181^. 

Universally known as "Major Larkin" — a man of most 
agreeable and social disposition. He came from Boston and 
opened a bookstore on the Parade. His store was burned in 
the great fire of 1802. He was afterward an Auctioneer and 
during the war of 181 2 sold under the hammer many prizes 
and prize cargoes captured by Portsmouth privateers. Major 
Larkin was the father of twenty-two children, many of whom 
died young. Two of his sons were officers in the United 
States Navy. A daughter lived to the age of ninety-six years. 
His residence was at 16 Middle Street, where he died in 1849, 
at the age of seventy-five years. 

He was Chief Fire ward of Portsmouth 181 7 to 1825. The 
writer of this notice remembers the Major, at a fire which 
threatened the destruction of his father's house about sixty 
years ago, as very active with other members of this Society 
in removing the household goods to a place of safety. The 
house was saved, however, and the goods were returned the 
following day, uninjured. 

JOHN W. FOSTER. 

Admitted tSt^. 

Bookseller. He came from Boston and was for many years 
of his life very prominent in the Unitarian Church and in all 
benevolent work in this community, and was universally 
known and respected as "Deacon Foster." His residence was 
the house built in 1790 by Joseph Haven, corner of Pleasant 
and Richmond Streets. Deacon Foster died in 1852, in his 
sixty-third year. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
JOHN THURSTON. 

Admitted i8iy. 

Physician. The annual bills of mortality for Portsmouth 
for the years i8iS, 1819, 1820 and 1823, were compiled by 
Dr. Thurston. Copies of the same are preserved in the Ath- 
enagum, December 23, 1824, he was appointed Assistant 
Surgeon in the United States Army. He resigned his com- 
mission May I, 1833, and died in Newburyport December 10, 
1835. 

CHARLES C. HAVEN. 

Admitted 1817. 

Merchant. Graduated at Harvard 1804. After leaving 
college he travelled abroad. He removed from Portsmouth 
to Philadelphia, where he resided many years. Late in life he 
made his home in Trenton, New Jersey. In July, 1873, at 
the age of eighty-six, he wrote a song commemorative of the 
return of the Sons of Portsmouth, which he enclosed in a 
friendly letter to Gov. Goodwin, and which was published, 
both song and letter, in the pamphlet entitled, "The Reunion 
of '73." Mr. Haven died in 1874, aged eighty-seven years. 

JOSHUA WINSL O W PEIR CE. 

Admitted 18 18. 

Merchant and Farmer. Born in Portsmouth May 14, 1791. 
Entered Exeter Academy in 1803. Commenced his business 
career in counting room of James Sheaf e, a leading merchant 
of Portsmouth and one of the founders of this Society. Mr. 
Peirce was as a young man much interested in the Militia, 
and in 181 3 was commissioned Captain of the "Gilman 
Blues," a noted Portsmouth Company. In 1816 he became 
Major of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment, in 1819 its Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, and in 1820 its Colonel. He resigned in 1823. 

In 1816 he made a voyage to the Mediterranean as Super- 

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cargo for Mr. Sheafe. After disposing of the cargo and fin- 
ishing the business connected therewith he left the ship at Leg- 
horn and passed a year visiting the principal countries and 
cities of Europe before returning to Portsmouth. In 1825 he 
removed to Salmon Falls as Agent of the Salmon Falls Man- 
ufacturing Co., remaining there till the destruction of the 
Mills by fire in 1834. In 1836 the Company decided to re- 
build and the work was done under Col. Peirce's supervision. 
In 1838 he moved to his farm in Greenland, where he passed 
the next twenty-eight years of his life finding congenial occu- 
pation in the cultivation of his broad acres on the shores of 
Great Bay — the finest farm in Rockingham County. In Nov- 
ember, 1866, being then in his seventy-sixth year, he came to 
his town house in Portsmouth, where he resided until his 
death, which occurred April 10, 1874 — then the oldest mem- 
ber of the Federal Fire Society, of which he had been a mem- 
ber fifty -six years. 

Col. Peirce was possessed of a vigorous constitution, and 
was a man of great force of character and fine intelligence, 
and commanded universal respect. 



NATHANIEL LYDE. 

Admitted 18 18. 

Purser in the United States Navy. Born in Massachusetts 
and appointed to the Navy from that State. He was stationed 
at the Portsmouth Navy Yard over thirteen years, from 1815 
till his death in 1828. Mr. Lyde was killed by being thrown 
from a carriage in which he and Commodore Creighton, Com- 
mandant at the Yard, were driving. The accident occurred 
July 7, 1828, on Austin Street, near Middle Street. His 
skull was fractured and death ensued on the following 
morning. 

The Portsmouth Journal oi July 12 said of him : "In this 
community, and wherever he was known, the memory of Mr. 

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Lyde will be cherished as that of one of the kindest and most 
benevolent of men. He has not left behind him here one 
man whom he had ever injured or offended, probably not one 
who did not entertain toward him feelings of regard and 
friendship." 

CHARLES A UG USTUS CHEE VER. 

Admitted 1818. 

Physician. Born in Boston, December i, 1793. His youth 
was passed in Saugus, Mass., until his entrance at Harvard 
in 1809, from which he graduated in 18 13. On leaving col- 
lege he studied medicine with Dr. John Warren, Professor of 
Anatomy and Surgery at Harvard. After taking his medical 
degree he made a voyage to the West Indies, mainly for the 
purpose of introducing vaccination. This effective preven- 
tive of smallpox had been discovered by Dr. Jenner and given 
by him to the public eighteen years before, but was very slow- 
ly adopted this side the Atlantic. Dr. Cheever was success- 
ful in his mission. In the autumn of 18 16 he established 
himself in Portsmouth, and became a leading Physician here. 
He was very highly esteemed, both as a citizen and in his 
profession. He died at Saugus September 22, 1852, in his 
fifty-ninth year. 

GE OR GE JAFFRE T. 

Admitted j8j8. 

Born Jeffries. Son of Dr. John Jeffries, of Boston. Hon. 
George Jaffrey (H. C. 1736) who had been Councillor, Chief 
Justice of the Superior Court, and Treasurer of the Province 
of New Hampshire, at his death in 1802 in his eighty-sixth 
year left his large estate to a relative on his mother's side — 
his nearest of kin — George Jeffries — at that time a lad in his 
fourteenth year. Thereupon Jeffries changed his name to 
Jaffrey. After his graduation at Harvard he carae to Ports- 

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mouth, where he took up his permanent residence, which was 
in the old Jaffrey house, off Daniel Street. He was for many 
years Librarian of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. He died in 
1856, at the age of sixty -seven years. 

SAMUEL HALE, JR. 

Admitted 1822. 

A. B. Bowdoin College 1814. A. M. Dartmouth 1818. 
Merchant in Portsmouth for many years, of the firm Rollins 
(Ichabod) & Hale. President of Piscataqua Bank, Ports- 
mouth Marine Railway Company, and of the Portsmouth 
Iron Foundry Company, and Director of the Piscataqua 
Bridge Company. Removed to Somersworth, where he died 
in 1869. 

JOHN H. SHEAFE. 

Admitted 1822. 

Son of an original member (Thomas). Merchant in 
Portsmouth. Director of the Piscataqua Bridge Company 
and of the Rockingham Bank. Died in 1840, aged forty-six 
years. 

EBENEZER L. CHILD S. 

Admitted 1823. 

Member of the bookselling firm of Gray (Harrison) & 
Childs, on Pleasant Street, in Portsmouth. Later, connected 
for many years with the the Post Office Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C, where he died in 1873, aged seventy-two 
years. 

GEORGE SPARHAWK. 

Admitted 182^. 

Born in Portsmouth, but resided for many years in Kittery, 

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the custodian of Fort McCleary. Died in Kittery in 1857, 
aged fifty-seven years. 

JOHN BALL, JR. 

Admitted 182^. 

Dry goods Merchant in Portsmouth. Later, for ten years, 
City Missionary of Salem, Mass., where he died in 1859, 
aged fifty-six years. 



OLIVER W. PENHALLOW, 

Admitted i8a^. 

Clerk in Piscataqua Bank (1834). Town Treasurer and 
Collector (1839). Clerk of the Federal Fire Society. Died 
in 1873, aged seventy-six years. 



DANIEL H. TREAD WELL. 

Admitted 182^. 

Leaving Harvard College by reason of ill health, went to 
England at the age of fifteen, where he long resided. Later 
made repeated journeys through parts of Europe. Treasurer 
of the Sagamore Company, and Director in the New Hamp- 
shire Bank. Died in Portsmouth, in 1864, aged sixty-four 
years. 

WILLIAM JONES, JR. 

Admitted 1826. 

Born in Kittery, Maine. A dry goods Merchant, founding 
in 1832 the very successful house of William Jones & Son, 
on Market Street. He was a Director in the Rockingham 
Bank. Died in 1855. 

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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 
STEPHEN H. SIMES, 

Admitted 1828. 

Dry goods Merchant, for many years, in Portsmouth. 
Director in the Portsmouth Aqueduct Company. Died in 
Portsmouth, in 1872, aged seventy-six years. 

JAMES H, PIERREPONT. 

Admitted 18 sg. 

Physician of eminence. A. B. Harvard 1789. M. D. 
Dartmouth 1817, Harvard 1819. Died in Portsmouth, in 
1839, aged seventy-one years. 

EBEN WHEEL WRIGHT, JR, 

Admitted iSsg. 

Merchant. Was in business in Portsmouth several years, 
but before 1840 he removed to Boston. He died in 1877. 

MESHACH B. TRUNDT. 
Admitted iSzg. 

Merchant for many years on Market Street. Died in 
Portsmouth September 29, 1858, aged seventy-one years. 

LORT ODELL. 

Admitted 18 zg. 

Lawyer. Born at Conway, N. H., September 16, 
1801. Graduated at Bowdoin College 1823. Practised 
law in Hampton and in Portsmouth. He was for several 
years Collector of the Port of Portsmouth, and from 1855 to 
1 87 1 was Judge of the Police Court in Portsmouth. 

Judge Odell was a tall, slender, erect man of prominent 

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features and striking figure. He habitually wore a blue dress 
coat with bright buttons, a stiff neck stock and gold specta- 
cles, and was altogether a man to attract attention anywhere. 
He was a very genial companion, but never married. He 
died at Portland, Maine, March 23, 1883, in his eighty- 
second year. 



EDMUND ^, SHBAFE, 

Admitted iBzg. 

Son of Jacob Sheafe, an original member of F. F. S. 
He was a Shipmaster and later a Merchant. He died in 
Portsmouth, December 1839, aged fifty-one years. 



GEORGE MANE NT, 

Admitted 18 sg. 

Son of George A. Manent, a well-known French Teacher 
in Portsmouth. Mr. Manent was for some years clerk in 
Tappan & Foster's bookstore, then clerk with James H. Fos- 
ter in Boston. Returning to Portsmouth he opened a Stock 
and Exchange office on Congress Street, in which he pros- 
pered. He became involved however in the Eastern Land 
Speculation of 1837 and lost heavily. He was at one time 
Director in the New Hampshire Bank and a Warden of St. 
John's Church. He died March 3, 1884, on his ninetieth 
birthday. 

THOMAS A, ADAMS, 

Admitted 1830. 

Auctioneer and Insurance Agent. He was at one time 
Clerk of this Society. About 1840 he removed to New Or- 
leans and died in that city in 1880. 

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ICHABOD BARTLETT. 

Admitted 183 1. 

Lawyer. Born in Salisbury, N. H., (?) July 24, 1786. 
Graduated at Dartmouth College 1808. Admitted to the 
Bar i8i2, and became one of the very foremost among 
its members. He was in practice in Durham for about six 
years and then made his permanent home in Portsmouth 
where he was an acknowledged leader in his profession. He 
was a Representative in the Legislature for several terms and 
was chosen Speaker of the House in 182 1. In 1822 he was 
elected Representative to Congress, a position which he 
retained for three successive terms. He was an original 
member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and its 
President from 1826 to 1830. Mr. Bartlett was generous, 
sensitive and high spirited. He died in Portsmouth October 
I9i ^^535 ^ged sixty-seven years. 

ALFRED WOODWARD HAVEN. 

Admitted 1831. 

Lawyer. Born in Portsmouth March 14, 1801. Gradu- 
ated at Harvard 1820, and was admitted to the Bar in 1825. 
Practised law till 1834. He was one of the earliest advo- 
cates of the building of the Portsmouth & Concord Railroad, 
and was its first President. He was also a Director of the 
Rockingham Bank and of the Portsmouth Athenseum, and 
for four years a Representative from Portsmouth in the State 
Legislature. He resided on Congress Street in house next 
East of the Young Men's Christian Association building, 
where he died December 27, 1885, in his eighty-fifth year. 

JOHN RICE, 

Admitted iS^r. 
Bom in Kittery, Maine. He was for many years Cashier 

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of the New Hampshire Union Bank, Portsmouth. He resid- 
ed at 17 Court Street but removed to Kittery previous to 1851 
and died in 1871. 

CHARLES WILLIAM CUTTER, 

Admitted i8ji. 

Lav^ryer. Born in Portsmouth June 11, 1799. Graduated 
at Harvard 1818. Studied law in the office of Jeremiah 
Mason and commenced the practice of law in this town. 
Was Associate Editor of the Portsmouth Journal 1825 to 
1830. As a writer and political speaker he was highly suc- 
cessful. He represented Portsmouth in the Legislature sev- 
eral years. He was Clerk of the United States Circuit Court 
for this district several years, Naval Storekeeper 1841 to 
1845, and Navy Agent 1849 to 1851, removing soon after to 
the West, where he died at Hatfield, Minnesota, August 6, 
1856. 

SAMUEL E. COUns. 

Admitted 183 1. 

Born in Portsmouth June 13, 1797. Was senior partner of 
the firm of Coues & Goodwin, Shipowners. He was at one 
time President of the American Peace Society. He was a 
man of considerable literary ability. In 1851 he published a 
work entitled "Mechanical Philosophy — a Research into the 
Laws of Force," and in i86o "Studies of the Earth." In 
1858 he removed to Washington but returned to Portsmouth 
in 1866. Died July 3, 1867, at the age of seventy years. 



JAMES KENNARD, 

Admitted 1832. 

Bom November 14, 1780. Shipmaster. He lived on 

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North-West corner of Austin and Summer Streets. After 
retiring from the sea he became a member of the Portsmouth 
Marine Society, and was for several years its President. 
Capt. Kennard died November 3, 1856, aged seventy-six 
years. 



ICHABOD GOODWIN. 

Admitted 1832. 

Born in North Berwick, Me., 1794. Entered the counting 
room of Samuel Lord in 1808, and in 181 7 went out as super- 
cargo of ship "Elizabeth Wilson." In 1832 became a mem- 
ber of the shipping firm of Coues & Goodwin, which con- 
tinued in business in Portsmouth for many years. 

Between 1838 and 1856 he served six times as Representa- 
tive in the State Legislature. He was a member of the Con- 
stitutional Conventions of 1850 and of 1876. He was twice 
elected Governor of the State, serving from June 1859 to 
June 1 86 1. During his second term he was very energetic 
in raising the regiments called for by the general government 
at the outbreak of the Civil War, becoming personally 
responsible for loans necessary for their equipment until the 
Legislature could be convened to authorize them. 

During his long and active life he was President of many 
institutions — among them the Eastern Railroad Company ; the 
Portsmouth, Saco and Portland Railroad Company ; the 
Portsmouth Steam Factory ; the First National Bank ; the 
Portsmouth Gas Company. In 1834 and again in 1837 he 
served as Chief Fire ward of the town. He was also Presi- 
dent of the Howard Benevolent Society. 

Governor Goodwin died at his residence on Islington 
Street, July 4, 1882, in his eighty-eighth year. Five weeks 
before his death he had delivered with his customary force the 
Memorial Day address, full of patriotic sentiment. 

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JOHN T. GODDARD. 

Admitted 1834. 

Graduate of Harvard College. Being possessed of ample 
means he followed no regular occupation. His membership 
in this Society, however, indicated an interest in the welfare 
of the town. He died in 1837. 



ALEXANDER RICE. 

Admitted 1834. 

Born in Kittery. He was for many years Agent for the 
Eastern Stage Company which maintained a regular line of 
coaches between Portsmouth and Boston. On the advent of 
the Eastern Railroad he became the ticket agent of the 
road in this town. Mr. Rice made his home at the Franklin 
House on Congress Street, corner of Fleet. He died in 
1876. 

ED WARD R UNDLE TT. 

Admitted 183s • 
Was a Physician. Graduated at Harvard. Resided on 
Middle Street. Dr. Rundlett died in 1874, aged sixty-nine 
years. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON STORER. 

Admitted 183 J. 

United States Naval Officer. Born May 4, 1789. In Oc- 
tober of that year President Washington visited Portsmouth 
and while here called on the mother of his private secretary, 
Tobias Lear, at her home in Hunking Street. While at the 
house Mrs. Lear exhibited to General Washington her infant 
grandson, the subject of this sketch, and — ^as related in 
Brewster's "Rambles" — Washington placed his hand on the 

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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 

child's head and expressed the wish that he might grow up to 
be a better man than the one he was named for. 

Young Storer entered the Navy as Midshipman January 
i6, 1809. He attained the rank of Captain Febuary 9, 
1837, and was in command of the Brazil squadron as Com- 
modore 1847 to 1850. He was retired on account of age 
December 21, 1861, being then in his seventy -third year. 
July 16, 1862, he was made Rear Admiral on the retired list. 
Admiral Storer died at his residence in Portsmouth January 
8, 1S64, in his seventy-fifth year. 



HENRY H. LADD, 

Admitted 1836. 

Mr. Ladd was a leading Merchant in Portsmouth. He 
resided in the fine three-storied brick house, No. 18 Middle 
Street, said to have been built after the plans of the 
celebrated architect, Charles Bulfinch, designer of the origi- 
nal Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill, in Boston, as 
also of the Portsmouth Athenaeum and of the Academy, now 
Public Library building. 

DANIEL R. ROGERS. 

Admitted 1836. 

Merchant. Son of Daniel R Rogers, who was also a 
member of this Society, (admitted in 1792). Mr. Rogers 
lived on Congress Street, a few doors West of the North 
Church. He died in 1867. 

CHARLES H. LADD. 

Admitted 1836. 

Born March 4, 181 2. Became a Merchant in partnership 
with his brother, Alexander H. C. H. and A. H. Ladd 

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carried on the business of refining crude whale oil at the 
stone building on Market Street, near the bridge, which 
was in their day known as the Oil Factory. Later Mr. C. 
H. Ladd removed to Galveston, Texas, where he was en- 
gaged in the cotton business and where he died April 20, 
1893, aged eighty-one years. 



CHARLES B. GOODRICH. 

Admitted 183b. 

Lawyer. Born in Enfield, N. H., March 26, 1804. Gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth College 1822, and later received degree of 
L. L. D., from Dartmouth. Studied law in the office of Hon. 
Levi Woodburj'. Practised at first in Lebanon, N. H. ; af- 
terward in Portsmouth ten or twelve years, and then removed 
to Boston, where he took high rank at the Bar, being regarded 
as an eminent authority on Constitutional law. He died in 
Boston, June 1878, aged seventy-four years. 

ALFRED RUNDLETT. 

Admitted 182,6. 

Bom in Portsmouth i8ii. Graduated at Dartmouth 
College 1831. Dry goods Merchant on Market Street for 
many years, and Fireward in 1839. Died in San Francisco 
1851. 

MARK H. WENTWORTH. 

Admitted 1836. 

Born in Portsmouth 18 13, and dry goods Merchant on Mar- 
ket Street, removing to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1843 ; forming 
with his brothers, George J. and Alfred S., a wholesale dry 
goods house. He returned to Portsmouth in 1855, becoming 
a partner in the firm of Wm. Jones & Son, and a Director 

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in the Rockingham Bank. He died in Portsmouth 1902, in 
hk eighty-ninth year. 

ISAA C n. PARSONS. 

Admitted i8j6. 

Shipmaster. Died at sea, on passage from St. John to 
Bristol, 1850. Commanded ships "Marion," "Seine," 
"Olive & Eliza," "Pontiac," "Robert Parker" and "Kate 
Hunter." 

JOHN P. LYMAN. 

Admitted 1838. 

Born in Portsmouth, and a grandson of Hon. John Picker- 
ing, an original member. He was an Importer of iron and 
steel, in business upon Market Street, and a Director in the 
Portsmouth Bank. He died in Portsmouth, 1874, 

RALPH C. CUTTER. 

Admitted 1838. 

Bom in Portsmouth. Son of a member and grandson of 
an original member. He went at an early age from Phillips 
Exeter Academy to Hayti, where he was for many years in 
business. Returning to Portsmouth he became there a Mer- 
chant and Shipowner and was a member of its last Board of 
Selectmen. He removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1853, where 
he died in 1884. 

CHRISTOPHER S. TOPPAN. 

Admitted 1838. 

Born in Hampton, N. H. He was for many years a Di- 
rector in the Piscataqua Bank, but at no time in active busi- 

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ness. He died suddenly at Gorham, N. H., on a journey 
through the White Mountains, 1861. 

HORATIO COFFIN. 

Admitted 1838. 

Born in Portsmouth and a grandson of Thomas Sheafe, an 
original member. Shipowner, having a counting room on 
Market Street. He died at Little Harbor, 1859. 

JAMES WOODWARD EMERY. 

Admitted iS^g. 

Lawyer. Born in Haverhill, Mass., November 30, 1808. 
Graduated at Dartmouth College 1830. Admitted to the 
bar 1833. 

Mr. Emery studied law with Ichabod Bartlett of Ports- 
mouth and afterwards was associated with him in practice 
until the death of the latter in 1853. He was the chief pro- 
moter, if not the projector, of the Portsmouth and Concord 
Railroad, which, though the original stockholders were losers, 
was only a little in advance of the times. In 1857 Mr. 
Emery removed to Cambridge, Mass., and became President 
of the Union Horse Railroad Company, which, under his 
management, was highly successful. In 1870 he returned to 
Portsmouth where he resided until his death. He was a 
Representative in the New Hampshire Legislature for six 
years, and Speaker in 1873. 

He was long a member of this Society. He died in Ports- 
mouth December 16, 189 1. 

WILLIAM P. JONES. 

Admitted /8jg. 
Born in Portsmouth. Member of the firm of Wm. Jones 

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& Son, and Shipowner, with counting room on Market 
Square, and a Director in the Rockingham Bank. He died 
in 1872. 

WILLIAM F'. PARROTT. 

Admitted 18 jg. 

Shipmaster and Merchant. Son of John F. Parrott, 
United States Senator from New Hampshire (1819 to 1825) 
and brother of Robert F., the inventor of the famous Parrott 
gun. For many years Capt. Parrott made his home at the 
Tremont House in Boston, where he was extensively engaged 
in the Calcutta trade. On retiring from business he returned 
to Portsmouth, long residing on Middle Street, where he 
died July 19, 1878. 

WILLIAM A. RICE. 

Admitted 1840. 

Shipmaster. In 1839-40 he resided at No. 9 Market 
Street, but subsequently removed to the Sheafe house on State 
Street, where the Rockingham County Court House now 
stands, and where he died July 28, 1847, aged forty-six 
years. 

JOHN D. SIMES, 

Admitted 1840. 

Merchant and Ship Chandler. In business at 59 Market 
Street in 1839-40, his residence being at No. 7 Court 
Street. He was at one time Clerk of this Society. Subse- 
quently he removed to New York where he died in i860. 

GEORGE W. RICE, 

Admitted 1840. 
At the date of his admission he was Assistant Cashier of 

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the New Hampshire Union Bank of Portsmouth, residing 
with his father at 17 Court Street. He afterward removed to 
Boston and was living in 1880. Date of his death unknown. 

JOHN L. THOMPSON. 

Admitted 1842. 

Bank Cashier. Son of Capt. Thomas Thompson who in 
the Revolutionary War commanded the Continental ship of 
war "Raleigh," thirty-two guns, in which, on her passage to 
L'Orient in 1777, he had a successful encounter with the 
British man of war "Druid." Mr. Thompson at the time of 
his death, and for several years previous, had served as Treas- 
urer of St. John's Church, He was prominent in the social 
life of Portsmouth. His death occurred in April, 1844, at 
the age of sixty years. 

GEORGE B. GUMMING. 

Admitted 1842. 

Merchant and Shipowner. He resided in Savannah, Geor- 
gia, but visited Portsmouth in summer for many years. He 
was an intimate friend of Governor Goodwin and interested 
with him in Portsmouth built ships, among which were the 
"Susannah Cumming," the "Kate Hunter" and the "John 
Cumming," the last a large ship for those days, being of 721 
tons burthen. She was commanded by Capt. William L. 
Dwight, with whom the writer of this sketch sailed from 
Portsmouth January 10, 1848, arriving at the mouth of the 
Tybee river, after a passage of seven days. At Savannah, 
after discharging her cargo of hay, she took on board a car- 
go of cotton with which she proceeded to Liverpool, cross- 
ing the Atlantic in nineteen days. Mr. Cumming was much 
interested in Portsmouth and a welcone summer visitor. He 
died in 1878. 

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JAMES P. BARTLETT. 

Admitted 1843. 

Born in Portsmouth April 12, 1820. Entered the office of 
Thomas A. Adams, Auctioneer and Insurance Agent (F. F. 
S. 1830), and on his removal to New Orleans succeeded to 
his business in Portsmouth. In 1 855 he was appointed Cash- 
ier of the New Hampshire Bank, and in 1866 became Presi- 
dent of its successor, the New Hampshire National Bank. In 
1882 he resigned to become Cashier of the Mechanics' and 
Traders' National Bank, where he remained until his with- 
drawal from active business about a year before his death. 

Mr. Bartlett was a man of scholarly attainments and prom- 
inent in the business and social life of Portsmouth for more 
than half a century. He resided in his later years on State 
Street, corner of Penhallow, and died there April 15, 1896, 
aged seventy -six years. 

MARK R. WENDELL. 

Admitted 1843. 
Merchant. Was in 1839-^0 a member of the firm of Wm. 
Jones & Son, Dry Goods Dealers and Shipowners. After- 
ward removed to Boston where he became associated with 
Oliver H. Perry, grandson of the famous Commodore Perry, 
who won the battle of Lake Erie against the British squadron, 
in 1813. The firm Perry, Wendell, Fay & Co., was for many 
years the selling agent of the Middlesex Mills. Mr. Wendell 
resided at Jamaica Plain. He died February 28, 1901, aged 
eighty-four years. 

WILLIAM M. SHACKEORD. 

Admitted 1844. 
Shipmaster and Owner. Born in Kittery in 1789. In 1804 
he went to sea on board the ship "Resolution," of 600 tons bur- 

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den, the largest merchantman which had ever at that time 
sailed out of Piscataqua river. He became Captain of a ship 
when twenty years of age, and in a few years part owner. 

He owned five-eighths of ship "Georgia," which he also 
commanded. He was afterward Captain and sole owner of 
the ship "Izette." 

Early in the war of 1812 Capt. Shackford sailed for Hava- 
na with a cargo of flour. He there sold both ship and cargo 
at a handsome profit receiving over $30,000 in bills in pay- 
ment. He then took passage for home on a schooner of un- 
mistakable American build but with a Spanish captain and 
under the Spanish flag. Knowing the possibility of capture by 
the British on such an evidently American built vessel, he had 
removed the bottom of his sea chest and chiselled a groove up 
in the front panel of the chest in which he stowed his papers 
and bills and then replaced the bottom. On the passage the 
schooner was brought to by a gun from the British ship of the 
line, the "Bulwark." Shackford and his chest were conveyed 
on board and the schooner was ordered to lie by during the 
night, but at daylight it was found she had slipped away. 
Finding nothing on Shackford to prove him other than a 
passenger on a vessel belonging to a friendly nation, the British 
Captain, when off the coast of Connecticut, set him ashore and 
he reached home with his papers and property safe. At 
Providence he saw the schooner on which he took passage 
safe in her home port. 

The above incidents are related by his grandson, Capt. 
Wm. G. Shackford, of Orange, N. J. 

During this same war he joined a coast defence company 
called the Sea Fencibles. It was made up principally of un- 
employed Shipmasters and Mates of vessels, uniformed and 
armed with pistols and cutlasses, and who also served a few 
pieces of artillery. About ten o'clock in the evening, June 21 , 
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landing at Rye. The Sea Fencibles (with other companies) 
started for the scene of action dragging their cannon by ropes. 
But before reaching Rye they learned that the alarm was 
false. 

In 1834, having retired from the sea, Capt. Shackford be- 
came a Dircetor in the Piscataqua Bank, and remained in its 
directory until his death forty-one years later. On the adop- 
tion of the National Banking System the institution reorgan- 
ized as the First National Bank of Portsmouth. 

He was also for twenty -five years, 1844 *® 1869, President 
of the Portsmouth Savings Bank. For forty years he was a 
member of the Portsmouth Marine Society — part of the time 
serving as its Secretary and Treasurer. 

Capt. Shackford was a man of uncommon sagacity and 
prudence. He lived to enjoy a vigorous old age, as well as 
the entire respect of this community. For many years he re- 
sided at 35 Daniel Street, where, after a brief illness, he died 
November 12, 1875, in his eighty-seventh year. 

DA VID D. BAKER. 

Admitted 1844. 

Officer of United States Marine Corps. He was stationed 
at Portsmouth quite a number of years. Lieut. Baker was 
rather a striking figure of a man, with a very soldierly ap- 
pearance. During the Mexican war he was attached to the 
frigate "Cumberland" in the Gulf of Mexico. He was pro- 
moted to be Captain September 28, 1847. In 185 1 he was 
again in Portsmouth residing at No. 3 Jeffreys Court. He 
died at Pensacola, of yellow fever, August 31, 1853. 

CHARLES COFFIN HARRIS. 

Admitted 1844. 
Born June 9, 1S22. Son of William C. Harris, who for 

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thirty-seven years conducted a private school for boys in this 
town with remarkable success. Mr. Harris was fitted for col- 
lege at his father's school from which he entered Harvard 
College, graduating there in 1840. He became a Teacher in 
Portsmouth and also studied law. When the discovery of 
gold was made in California he crossed the Isthmus of Panamsi 
and in company with two of his brothers purchased a vessel 
for trading purposes on the Pacific. They finally ran down to 
Honolulu for a cargo of provisions, and there Mr. Harris left 
the vessel and set up the practice of law, in which he became 
very successful. He soon began to take a prominent part in 
Hawaiian politics and in 1854 was made Police Magistrate. 

On the accession of Kamehameha V, he entered his cabi- 
net as Attorney General, and was the chief adviser of that 
Monarch in all the important constitutional changes which 
were made. He was afterward Minister of Finance, and still 
later became Minister of Foreign Affairs in which office he 
continued until about a year before the death of the King, 
when — owing to a split in the cabinet — he resigned and never 
again occupied a ministerial position. 

In February, 1874, he was appointed First Associate Jus- 
tice and in February, 1877, Chief Justice of the Kingdom. 

At his death, which occurred in July, 1881, the press of 
Honolulu thus eulogized him : 

"We know that many will mourn Mr. Harris as a faithful 
friend and kindly adviser. Many a man in this community 
owes his success to his advice and assistance. Strong of will, 
of indomitable courage, both moral and physical, of great 
mental capacity, one of the greatest of Hawaii's adopted 
children has passed away." 

WILLIAM H. ROLLINS. 

Admitted 1844. 
Lawyer. Graduate of Harvard in same class (1840) with 

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Charles Coffin Harris. Mr. Rollins is still living (1905) in 
the house d'^ Pleasant Street, where his father and his grand- 
father lived, and which has been his own residence for over 
eighty years. The Eastern Railroad had not been built when 
he entered college, and so he travelled to Cambridge by stage 
coach — the only mode of passenger conveyance at that period. 
His honorable career in his chosen profession is well known 
to all his fellow citizens. 



JOSEPH HOOKER. 

Admitted 1843. 

Born in Hadley, Mass., November 13, 1814. Educated at 
West Point Military Academy, and entered United States 
Army as 2d Lieutenant of Artillery. Served in the Seminole 
Indian War in Florida in 1837-38. Was subsequently ap- 
pointed Aid to Col. Crane, Commander of the Eastern Divis- 
ion, U. S. A., and stationed for several years in Portsmouth. 

He went to the Mexican War as ist Lieutenant of Artillery 
and returned with rank of Captain. During the Civil War, 
1 86 1 to 1S65, he held high commands in the field, being for 
six months of 1863 Commander of the Army of the Potomac. 
In 1864 he received the thanks of Congress for distinguished 
services. In 1868 he was retired with rank of Major Gener- 
al, U. S. A. He died at Garden City, Long Island, October 
31, 1879, aged sixty-five years. His native state of Mass- 
achussetts has erected on Beacon Hill, Boston, an equestrian 
statue in bronze of this, her distinguished son. 



SAMUEL LARKIN, JR. 

Admitted 184$, 

Son of Major Larkin (F. F. S. 1815). Lieutenant in 
United States Navy. Died in 1856. 

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JOHN H. BOARDMAN. 

Admitted 184$. 

Physician. Resided 14 Middle Street. Col. Peirce, in 
the list of members compiled by him, mentions Dr. Board- 
man as also a Poet — one of the Poets of Portsmouth. He 
died in 1874. 

ALEXANDER J. RICE. 

Admitted 184.5. 

Graduated at Harvard in 1841, and studied Medicine. He 
was appointed Assistant Surgeon in United States Navy 
March 5, 1847. He died at Pensacola April 20, 1851, in the 
twenty -ninth year of his age. 

JOHN A. BATES. 

Admitted 184b. 

Purser in United States Navy. While stationed at the 
Portsmouth Navy Yard he resided with his family on Austin 
Street. Purser Bates was a familiar figure on the streets of 
Portsmouth in those days, his rotund person, brisk manner, 
and hearty appearance presenting a picture suggestive of ro- 
bust health and manly vigor. His death occurred in 1871. 



GEORGE W. HAVEN. 

Admitted 1846. 

Son of John Haven (F. F. S. 1789). Graduated at Dart- 
mouth College 1838. He afterward studied in Germany, where 
he met the famous poet, Goethe, to whom he had letters of in- 
troduction, and other German literary men. His knowledge 
of German and Italian literature was extensive. He was al- 
so well read in the science of political economy. He was for 

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forty years a Director of the Rockingham Bank. He deliv- 
ered lectures in Portsmouth on Dante, on political economy, 
and on banking. Mr. Haven resided in the house on Islington 
Street, erected by his father in 1799, w^hich was demolished 
(a hundred years after its erection) to make room for the new- 
High School Building, which now occupies its site. He 
died there August 9, 1895, aged eighty -seven years. 



JAMES BRACKETT PARROTT. 

Admitted 1846. 

Born in Portsmouth, November 26, 1817. Iron Dealer — of 
firm of Spalding and Parrott. Noted as a lover of Nature, 
and for his pedestrian excursions, which extended for many 
miles around Portsmouth. He was also devoted to athletic 
exercises, and no less to literature, his favorite author being 
the immortal Bard of Avon. He was himself a man of con- 
siderable literary gifts, and with a strong poetic vein, exhibit- 
ed in numerous short poems contributed to the Portsmouth 
Journal, and particulary in the fine ode always sung at the 
semi-annual dinners of this Society. In his will he bequeathed 
a very generous sum to the Society. The handsome silver lov- 
ing cup, belonging to the Society, was purchased with part of 
the bequest. His interest in his native city was also exhibited 
in his will by the gift of one thousand dollars to be used to- 
ward the embellishment of the borders of the South Millpond. 
In recognition of this gift the broad road on the margin of 
the pond has received the name of Parrott Avenue. 

Mr. Parrott's sturdy figure will long remain in the memory 
of his contemporaries. He died January 29, 1890, in his sev- 
enty-third year. His body lies in St. John's Churchyard near 
the remains of his ancestors, and of his brother. Admiral 
Enoch G. Parrott, U. S. N., who also was a member of the 
Federal Fire Society. 

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The following "Observations" were originally 
printed on a separate broadside: 

PORTSMOUTH, March 6th, 1789. 

THE FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY taking in- 
to confideration the danger of fire, and the fright 
and confequent mifmanagement of many at the 
time, think it may be beneficial to have confantly 
expofed in their houfes for the perufal of their fam- 
ilies, fuch obfervations as may contribute to fubdue 
a fire, or prevent or leffen any of its attendant ca- 
lamities ; — and as the greateft fires arife from fmall 
beginnings, they think no circumftance too trivial 
to mention, which has the remoteft tendency to 
their fecurity; — they therefore recommend to each 
other, and to the families with which they are re- 
fpe6tively conne6ted, an attention to the following 
obfervations: 



Observations. 



To Prevent a Fire. 

All wood work in building fhould be fo fecured 
as to prevent all probability of fire communicating 
from the places for making fires; and every houfe 
ought to be critically examined by its inhabitants, 
efpecially after burning a chimney, and if danger- 
ous places be found they fhould be immediately 
fecured. Any member who knows of a dangerous 
building, is requefted to inform the fociety, or com- 
plain to the Firewards. Hot afhes or embers 
ought never to be put into a wooden veffel, and the 
moft proper time for taking them up is the morn- 
ing. After the hearth round a fire be fwept, the 
brufh or broom fhould be carefully examined. — 
The utmoft care ought to be taken of lighted can- 
dles and their fnuffs, as inftances of damage done 
by them are innumerable, therefore children and 
domefticks who are intrufted with them, fhould 
from time to time be cautioned of the danger, and 
forbidden to carry a naked candle into a place con- 
taining light combustible matter; — fuch combufti- 
bles hould alfo be kept out of the way of children 
as much as poffible, and no child at any time fhould 

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be fuffered to play with fire. At bed time but one 
fire fhould be raked up, the reft fhould be careful- 
ly extinguifhed, and the burnt fticks laid a diftance 
apart, flat on the hearth, that if any stick fhould 
rekindle in the night, it fhould not communicate 
fire to the others, and the brands could not fall to 
fcatter the coals. One or two pails of water fhould 
be fet on the hearth; and every door in the houfe 
fhould be fhut when the family retire, that the 
progress of a fire beginning in any room, might be 
retarded by confinement, and that it might not fo 
rapidly communicate to other rooms, and its fmoke 
fuffocate the fleeping family. As a live coal will 
ftick to the hair of animals, they fhould not be left 
where fire is raked up. The window fhutters 
fhould be left open, or have holes in them, that if 
the room fhould take fire, it might be obferved by 
thofe who pafs by. 

To Subdue a Fire. 

As there is a critical moment in the time of ev- 
ery fire which carries it beyond the reach of any 
efforts which can be made to ftop its further prog- 
refs, every person fhould be ready to attend at the 
fhorteft warning, for which purpofe every article 
of cloathing fhould be fo placed when taken off as 
to be eafily found in the dark; the candle fhould 
have one ftated place, and be extinguifhed in fuch 
a manner as to be eafily lighted, and fome appara- 
tus for lighting it fhould be kept conftantly pre- 

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pared in fome convenient place. Buckets, Bags, 
Mops, Ladders, and every other implement for fub- 
duing a fire, or relieving or affifting diftreffed inhab- 
itants, f hould be kept in conftant readinefs : Every 
houfe ought to have a fcuttle on the top ; every well 
fhould have a pump, or fome other conveniency 
which may be depended on for drawing water ex- 
peditioufly; every pump fhould have its fpear fo 
long, as that the upper box may play below the 
platform, to prevent freezing, and a box fhould be 
built with a cover at leaft two feet high by the fide 
of the pump, that a pail may be let down if the 
pump fhould fail. The warm fteam which arifes 
in this box, is an additional guard againft the freez- 
ing of the pump. 

A BUILDING on fire fhould be kept as clofe as 
poffible. — The utmoft care fhould be taken to pre- 
vent the wafting of water. Earth is extremely 
ufeful in extinguishing fire on a floor, it fhould 
therefore be ufed when it can. 

To Lessen the Calamities Attendant on a Fire. 

The fright which involves the reafonable facul- 
ties of many people in time of fire, fhould as much 
as poffible be avoided by frequently converfmg on 
what might be the moft prudent fteps to pursue in 
time of danger; that fo the members of a family 
may firft attend to the mq/t valuable moveables^ 
and fee them properly fecured; for which purpofe 
it is prudent for every family to keep a number of 

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trunks with ftrong handles, and the owner's name 
on them; as alfo for fhopkeepers to be provided 
with box counters on wheels. Children fhould 
have particular dire6tions to watch in fome confpic- 
uous place at times of fire, and obferve the direc- 
tions of the fparks, and to give immediate notice 
if any other building fhould catch. Spies fhould 
be placed in different parts to deteft thieves in 
time of fire. Papers and valuable effects fhould 
be compactly depofited, that they may be fecured 
at fhort notice. 



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Alphabetical List 

OF MEMBERS NAMED IN THE BIOGRAPHICAL 
NOTES. 



Federal Fire Society. 



MEMBERS NAMED IN THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



Adams, Thomas A. 

Baker, David D. 
Ball, John (Jr.) 
Barnes, Lewis 
Bartlett, Ichabod 
Bartlett, James P. 
Bates, John A. 
Blunt, George F. 
Blunt, Oliver C. 
Boardman, John H. 
Boyd, William 
Briard, Samuel 
Brown, Nathaniel 
Brown, Thomas 

Chase, Stephen 
Chauncy, Charles 
Cheever, Charles A. 
Childs, Ebenezer L. 
Coffin, Charles 
Coffin, Horatio 
Coues, Peter 
Coues, Samuel E. 



Page. 
49 

62 

47 
38 

50 
60 

65 

33 
40 

65 
32 

25 
38 
38 

25 
28 

45 
46 

36 

57 
24 
51 



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Gumming, George B. 
Cutter, Ammi R. 
Cutter, Charles William 
Cutter, Jacob 
Cutter, Ralph C. 
Cutter, William 
Cutts, Edward 

Dearborn, Benjamin 

Emery, James W. 

Fisher, John 
Flagg, John 
Foster, John W. 
Freeman, Peyton R. 
Furber, Theodore 

Goddard, John T. 
Goodrich, Charles B. 
Goodwin, Ichabod 

Hale, John 
Hale, Samuel (Jr.) 
Ham, Samuel 
Hardy, Stephen 
Harris, Charles Coffin 
Hart, Richard 
Haven, Alfred W. 
Haven, Charles C. 
Haven, George W. 
Haven, John 
Haven, Joseph 
Haven, Nathaniel A. 



Page. 

59 
iS 

51 

32 
56 
34 
41 

20 

57 

30 

30 
42 

37 
35 

53 
55 
52 

24 

46 

34 

25 
62 

27 
50 
43 
65 
25 

20 
20 



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MEMBERS NAMED IN BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



Haven, Samuel (Jr.) 
Hooker, Joseph (General) 
Horney, Gilbert 
Humphries, Daniel 



Page. 
21 
64 
28 
37 



Jackson, Hall 
Jackson, John 
Jaffrey, George 
Jones, Samuel 
Jones, William (Jr.) 
Jones, William P. 

Kennard, James 

Ladd, Charles H. 
Ladd, Henry H. 
Ladd, William 
Larkin, Samuel 
Larkin, Samuel (Jr.) 
Leavitt, Gilman 
Livermore, Edward St. Loe 
Lyde, Nathaniel 
Lyman, John P. 

Manent, George 
Martin, Thomas 
Mason, Jeremiah 

Neil, Thomas 
Neil, William 
Nichols, Ichabod 



22 
22 

45 
35 
47 
57 

51 

54 

54 

41 
42 

64 

37 
26 

44 
56 

49 
21 

33 

41 

32 
26 



Odell, Lorj' 



48 



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FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 



Parrott, James B. 
Parrott, William F. 
Parry, Edward 
Parsons, Isaac D. 
Pearse, Samuel 
Pearse, Stephen 
Peirce, Charles 
Peirce, John 
Peirce, Joshua W. 
Penhallow, Oliver W. 
Pickering, Jacob S. 
Pickering, John 
Pierrepont, James H. 



Page. 
66 

58 

30 
56 
37 
36 

39 
29 

43 
47 
36 

17 

48 



Randall, Reuben S. 

Rice, Alexander 

Rice, Alexander J. 

Rice, George W. 

Rice, John 

Rice, Robert 

Rice, Samuel 

Rice, William A. 

Rindge, Daniel 

Rogers, Daniel R. (died 1825) 

Rogers, Daniel R. (died 1867) 

Rollins, William H. 

Rundlett, Alfred 

Rundlett, Edward 



37 

53 

65 

58 

50 

35 
26 

58 

17 
28 

54 
63 

55 
53 



Salter, Richard 
Sargent, Edward 
Seaward, John H. 
Shackford, William M. 



31 
29 

32 
60 



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MEMBERS NAMED IN BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 











Page 


Shapley, Reuben .... 26 


Shapleigh, Richard 








40 


Sheafe, Edmund Q. 








49 


Sheaf e, Jacob (Jr.) 








18 


Sheafe, James 








19 


Sheafe, John H. 








46 


Sheafe, Thomas 








19 


Sheafe, William 








21 


Simes, John D. 








58 


Simes, Stephen H. 








48 


Sparhawk, George 








46 


Storer, George W. 








53 


Thompson, Ebenezer 








35 


Thompson, John L. 








59 


Thurston, John 








43 


Toppan, Christopher S. . 








56 


Tread well, Daniel H. 








47 


Treadwell, William 








34 


Trundy, Meshach B. 








48 


Waldron, Daniel 








35 


Wardrobe, John 








28 


Wendell, Mark R. 








60 


Wentworth, Mark H. 








55 


Wheelwright, Eben (Jr.) 






48 


Whipple, Oliver 








21 



79 



Federal Fire Society. 



MEMBERS ADMITTED SINCE 1846. 



Federal Fire Society. 





MEMBERS ADMITTED SINCE 1846. 






Admitted. 




Died. 


1846 


Jeremiah S. Young, 


Manufacturer, 




1861 


1847 


George F. Pearson, 


Rear Admiral, U.S. 


N., 


1867 


1847 


George M. White, 


Captain, U. S. N., 




1882 


1849 


John J. Pickering, 


Pres. Rock'm N. Bank, 


^905 


1850 


Samuel Storer, 


Lawyer, 




1898 


1851 


William A. Winder, 


Captain, U. S. A,, 




1903 


1851 


William H. Parsons, 


Shipmaster, 




1869 


1852 


Daniel Austin, 


Clergyman, 




1877 


1852 


Washington Williams, 


Merchant, 




i860 


1852 


Justin Dimick, 


Maj. General, U. S. 


A., 


1S71 


1852 


Charles W. Pickering, 


Commodore, U. S. 


N., 


1888 


1852 


William Sheafe, 


Capitalist, 




1882 


1853 


Joseph H. Foster, 


Treasurer, 




1885 


1853 


Charles T. Chase, 


Med. Director, U.S 


N., 


1876 


1855 


True M. Ball, 


Goldsmith, 




1890 


1855 


William L. Dwight, 


Shipmaster, 




1899 


1855 


Albert L. Jones, 


Ship Owner, 




1870 


1855 


Edward S. Ryder, 


Dentist, 




1897 


1855 


John T. Parrott, 


Farmer, 




1856 


1857 


Alexander H. Ladd, 


Merchant, 




1900 


1857 


Clement March, 


Merchant, 




1878 


1858 


M. Parry Jones, 


Merchant, 




1866 


i860 


Pearce W. Penhallow, 


Shipmaster, 




1885 


1S61 


Charles Doe, 


Chief Justice, N. H 


•» 


1896 



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Admitted. 

1861 Charles H. Rollins, 

[861 George J. Wentworth, 

[862 Eben R. Doe, 

[863 Nathaniel G. Weeks, 

[863 Charles G. Pickering, 

[S64 Samuel Webber, 

1864 Jacob J. Storer, 
[865 William H. Treadwell, 
[865 John N. Macomb, 

1865 Alexander Murray, 
[867 William G. Temple, 
[867 Z. B. Tower, 

1869 GouverneurK.Haswell, 
[869 A. Eugene Watson, 
[S69 E. Greenleafe Parrott, 

1870 Arthur R. Yates, 

1870 Henry K. Thatcher, 
[870 John S. Pray, 

[870 Joseph N. Bradford, 

[871 Stephen Rand, Jr., 

[871 Charles Main, 

1 87 1 Ezra H. Winchester, 
[872 William W. Low, 
[873 Samuel F. Coues, 
1874 William R. Boardman, 
[874 Emil Richter, 

[874 A. Sydney Wentworth, 

1874 W. Augustus Peirce, 

[877 Augustus Lord, 

[877 Robert C. Peirce, 

1878 Alfred O. Larkin, 

[878 Francis E. Langdon, 

[879 John Sise, 

^^79 Joseph Sise, 



Died. 

Shipmaster, 1S97 

Merchant, 1872 

Banker, 1864 

Shipmaster, 1869 

Merchant, 188^ 

Manufacturer, Res. 

Manufacturer, 1902 

Shipmaster, 1S97 

Colonel, U. S. A., 1889 

Rear Admiral, U. S.N. , 18S5 
Rear Admiral, U.S.N. , 1894 
Maj. General, U. S. A., Res, 
Commander, U. S. N., Res. 
Paymaster, U. S. N., 1876 
Rear Admiral, U. S. N., 1879 
Captain, U. S. N., 1S91 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N., 1880 
Shipmaster, 1889 

Captain, U. S. N., 1872 

Pay Inspector, U. S. N., Res. 
Manufact'r and Farmer, Res. 
Manufact'r and Farmer, 1904 
Captain, U. S. N., 1877 

Surgeon, U. S. N., Res. 

Lawyer, 1879 

Physician, Res. 

Merchant, 1900 

Banker, Res. 

Banker, 1S79 

Banker, 1S93 

Capitalist, Res. 

Physician, 1890 

Merchant, 1898 

Merchant, 1894 



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MEMBERS ADMITTED SINCE 184b. 



Admitted. 

1 879 William Russell Foster, 

1S79 Arthur Watson, 

1 88 1 Charles E. Batchelder, 

1 88 1 Robert F. Bradford, 

1 88 2 Walter I. Jones, 

1882 Frederick P. Jones, 

1883 William Winder, 

1883 Wendell Goodwin, 

1884 James K. Cogswell, 
1884 Philip C. Johnson, 
1886 William H. Everett, 
1890 Harry B. Ball, 

1890 Charles C. Carpenter, 



Lawyer, 

Captain, U. S. M. C, 

Lawyer, 

Captain, U. S. N., 

Treasurer, 

Merchant, 

Commander, U. S, N., 

Merchant, 

Rear Admiral, U. S.N., 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N., 

Commander, U. S. N., 

Architect, 

RearAdmiral, U.S.N. , 



Died. 
18S3 
1882 
1894 
1892 
1902 
1898 
Res. 
1896 
Res. 
1887 
Res. 
1898 
1899 



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LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS, 
A. D. 1905. 



Federal Fire Society 



OF PORTSMOUTH. N. H. 



LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS A. D. 1905. 



Admitted. 

1867 James R. May, 

1871 John W. Moore, 

1878 Edward May, 

1879 Frank Goodwin, 
1879 David B. Macomb, 
1879 Joseph W. Peirce, 
1883 Wallace Hackett, 

1883 Andrew P. Preston, 

1884 Arthur C. Heffenger, 
1884 John W. Parsons, 

1886 John S. H. Frink, . 

1887 John J. Berry, 

1889 Frank S. Preston, 

1890 Joseph Foster, 

1890 Frederick M. Sise, . 

1 89 1 Mortimer L. Johnson, 
1895 James A. Spalding, . 

1895 S, Ellery Jennison, . 

1896 Robert O. Treadwell, 

1897 Arthur W. Walker, 
1897 J* Louis Harris, 
1899 William Beals, Jr., . 
1899 George F. Evans, 



Residence. 

30 Middle Street 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Jamaica Plain 
Boston, Mass. 
University Heights, N. Y. 
8 Middle Street 

25 Middle Street 
40 Bow Street 

8 Austin Street 
81 State Street 

Greenland 

96 State Street 

Portsmouth 

26 Middle Street 
I Mark Street 

15 Middle Street 

Portland, Me. 

Kittery, Me. 

120 State Street 

9 Middle Street 
77 State Street 

Boston, Mass. 
Portland, Me. 



FEDERAL FIRE SOCIETY. 



Admitted. 

1899 Charles H. Fish, 

1900 Fielding Bradford, . 

1 90 1 Stephen Decatur, 
1 90 1 Charles C. Hall, 

1 90 1 Charles E. Wentworth, 

190 1 William E. Marvin, 

1904 Thomas W. Luce, . 

1905 Thomas H. Simes, . 



Residence. 

Dover, N. H. 

Portland, Me. 

Kittery, Me. 

51 Pleasant Street 

Cambridge, Mass. 

14 Middle Street 

5 Middle Street 

38 State Street 



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UNDER DIRECTION OF 

CHARLES C. HALL. 
JOSEPH FOSTER, 
JAMES R. MAY. 



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